Colin Boyd has provided the following:
Terence was born on 22nd July 1895. He was working as a miner living with his mother, Elizabeth Malone (widow remarried) at 5, Laurel Walk, Hedley Street, Gosforth when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Division on 17th March 1915. (The CWGC has Terence as a former private in the Northumberland Fusiliers who had deserted).
He joined the Howe Battalion in Gallipoli on 21st September 1915 and was invalided to the UK on 15th November 1915 suffering from Dysentery.
Terence qualified as a signaller and joined the Hood Battalion in France on 13th January 1917 where he was posted as being a prisoner of war on 24th March 1918. He died on 15th May 1918 in the Camp Hospital at Crossen am Oder from the effects of a brain injury.
Terence Joseph Aloysius Waters is remembered in Gosforth on G9.21 and G9.32
